haemorrhage

Usage of coil better in brain haemorrhage

According to researchers in UK inserting a coil into a weakened blood vessel offers a survival benefit over surgery in brain haemorrhage. The death rate from subarachnoid haemorrhage// - caused by a bursting of a weakened blood vessel in the brain - is up to 40 per cent in the first 24 hours after ...

Possible association between CP and LC of alcoholic etiology

... only 7% and severely altered in none. In patients with CP, clinical characteristics of cirrhosis such as ascites, encephalopathy and gastrointestinal haemorrhage were present in one case, Child-Pugh grade > A in 5.7%, and altered indocyanine green test in 1.9% cases. In asymptomatic alcoholism, there was only a...

A new breakthrough in timing of urgent endoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding patients

...essed whether a simplified clinical score prior to endoscopy in UGIB patients was able to predict either active bleeding or endoscopic signs of recent haemorrhage which may deserve an urgent ( When classifying 436 patients according to this score (T-score), active bleeding or signs of recent hemorrhage was de...

An efficient response in primary care would reduce the use of hospitals by elderly people

... frequent pathologies in older population: diabetic ketoacidosis, digestive haemorrhage and chronic bronchitis. The study, carried out by Doctor Isabel Valenzu...pitalisations caused by three pathologies: diabetic ketoacidosis, digestive haemorrhage and chronic bronchitis. However, in patients suffering from cancer and acut...

Eye could reveal serious health disorder

...ing arteries elsewhere, Rosen said. Many other potentially fatal diseases can be first detected in the eye. Leukaemia can start with a small haemorrhage in the eye, leading to leaking blood vessels. This symptom is also linked to diabetes, which, if untreated, can lead to blindness. A swelling of ...

Despite One More Death, Dengue Cases Continue to Fall in India

...as Sone Lal, 50, from east Delhi who died at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) within six hours of being admitted. "He died of haemorrhage as his condition was serious," said D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of AIIMS. He said the hospital was looking after 179 patients while 25 ...

A Safe Drug For Safe Delivery

... as a result of a piece of placenta remaining in the uterine cavity or following onset of infections. The WHO definition of primary post-partum haemorrhage is loss of blood estimated to be > 500ml from the genital tract within 24 hours of delivery. Women from rural parts of India were studied for t...

Stroke Linked to High Pollution Levels

...Laboratory findings suggest exposure to fine particles can increase blood pressure. In other studies more untreated hypertensive patients had cerebral haemorrhage than had other types of stroke and blood pressure is more strongly associated with haemorrhagic stroke than with ischaemic stroke." Previous re...

Chikungunya in the Capital

... are characteristic of this disease. After an incubation period of 3-12 days there is a sudden onset of flu-like symptoms. A rash may sometimes occur. haemorrhage is rare and all but a few patients recover within 3-5 days. Some can suffer from joint pain for months. Children may display neurological symptoms,' s...

Ariel Sharon Moved out of ICU After Improvement in Kidney Functions

...tal here Tuesday after an improvement in the functioning of his kidneys and lungs,// Israel Radio reported. Sharon, who suffered a massive brain haemorrhage in January, however, remains in a deep coma. He was taken back to the Tel Ha'Shomer Hospital's department of respiratory rehabilitation, the radio sai...

haemorrhage in Medical Technology

AstraZeneca Submits sNDA for NEXIUM(R) I.V. for Peptic Ulcer Bleed Indication

... and mortality rates for peptic ulcer in Scotland 1982-2002. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2006;24(1):65-79. (6) Soplepmann et al. Peptic ulcer haemorrhage in Tartu County, Estonia: epidemiology and mortality risk factors. Scand J Gastroenterol 1997;32(12):1195-200. (7) Thomsen et al. Diabet...

The Lancet Publishes PREVAIL Study Results Showing Lovenox Superiority Over Unfractionated Heparin for Reducing the Risk of Venous ThromboEmbolism in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

...cidence of the composite of symptomatic intracranial and major extracranial haemorrhage was small with no difference between groups (enoxaparin 1.3%, UFH 0.7%; p=0.2275). No difference was observed for symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage between groups (0.5% vs 0.7%, respectively; p=0.5466). The rate of major ex...

Actilyse (alteplase) Recommended by National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for Treatment of Acute Ischaemic Stroke

...ife’ treatment with Actilyse® within three hours resulted in both improved mortality (11.3% vs. 17.3%) and safety (symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage 7.3% vs. 8.6%) when compared to randomised controlled trials.2 SITS-MOST is embedded within the Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke Intern...

haemorrhage in Medical Dictionary

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

... A subarachnoid hemorrhage rɪdʒ/, or subarachnoid haemorrhage in British English) is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding the brain. Thi...

Antepartum

... In obstetrics, antepartum haemorrhage (APH), also prepartum hemorrhage, is bleeding from the vagina during pregnancy from twenty four weeks gestational age to term. Information...

haemorrhage in Biological News

New research findings may enable earlier diagnosis of uterine cancer

...ounts, which can damage the cell and the body's DNA, are associated with over 200 diseases, from arteriosclerosis and dementia to rheumatism, cerebral haemorrhage and cancer. The studies carried out by Sandra Karlsson on human malignant tumours have confirmed that changes in this gene are present in early as wel...

High hourly air pollution levels more than double stroke risk

...s, were monitored hourly at various sites in each of the 13 areas. When the two sets of data were put together, a pattern emerged for intracerebral haemorrhage - where a blood vessel bursts inside the brain - for the warmer months between April and September. This showed that high hourly rates of particula...

Internal body clock dictates timing of different types of stroke

...ser analysis showed that cerebral infarction had a higher peak in the morning and a lower peak in the afternoon than the other two. Intracerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage, on the other hand, were more likely to have lower peaks in the morning and higher peaks in the afternoon than cerebral i...

haemorrhage in Biological Technology

XANTHOCHROMIA IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID

...d by some to differentiate in vivo subarachnoid haemorrhage from a traumatic lumbar puncture (LP) resulting i...blood contamination of the CSF. While both in vivo haemorrhage and traumatic LP result in haemoglobin in the supernatant fluid, only in vivo haemorrhage results in bilirubin formation. Followin...